[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction (update)

From:

Joachim Henke

Subject:

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction (update)

Date:

Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:20:14 +0200

The last patch I sent, enabled the MONITOR cpuid flag for testing
purposes. So Linux guests won't execute the 'hlt' instruction
anymore. Since we don't really emulate an 'mwait' instruction, this
leads to high cpu usage on the host, even when the guest cpu is idle.